. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . e efforts made for their accommodation. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company also controlsthe line to Brigantine Beach, and which is known as the BrigautineBranch. This line leaves the main tracks of the Atlantic City roada short distance from Atlantic City and runs to the new resort ofBrigantine. It is the intention of the company to operate on thisbranch a service equally as good as that which has made the Atlanticline so justly popular with its patrons, and there is 110 doubt butthat Brigantine Beach will in the near future prove a formid
. Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians . e efforts made for their accommodation. The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company also controlsthe line to Brigantine Beach, and which is known as the BrigautineBranch. This line leaves the main tracks of the Atlantic City roada short distance from Atlantic City and runs to the new resort ofBrigantine. It is the intention of the company to operate on thisbranch a service equally as good as that which has made the Atlanticline so justly popular with its patrons, and there is 110 doubt butthat Brigantine Beach will in the near future prove a formidablerival to some of the older and more widely known seaside resorts. To those who do not care for the seashore the Philadelphia andReading affords access to mountain resorts at Eagles Mere, High-land Lake and Lake Mokoma, via the Williamsport and NorthBranch Railroad, and Weruersville, via the Lebanon Valley branch,all of which points possess attractions for the pleasure seeker, and PHILADELPHIA AND POPULAR PHILADELPHIANS. RAILROADS, interests which were opposed to granting the privilege: but thepress and the people were convinced thai it would he a great benefitto the public as well as to the company and its accomplishmentresulted. The establishing of the Terminal Station at Twelfth andMarket streets is hailed as one of the greatest iinprovcmrecent years, and the benefit certain to accrue to the general welfareand the commercial interests of the community as well as those ofthe railroad are almost beyond computation. Among some of the important matters which were taken inhand by the present management of the company upon assumingcharge of its affairs were the improvement of the road-bed, therolling stock and the train service. Even the ordinary layman,inexperienced in railroad management, well understands that a goodroad-bed is absolutely necessary to insure speed and safety of trainsand the comfort of passengers; and when the services of Mr. A. , now president
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